Designing a hyperscaler
During interviews, I’ve noticed a common challenge that keeps coming up. SRE teams love to test candidates with this multi-regional cluster design question:
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Do Kubernetes requests have a runtime impact?
Trick question ahead!
Self-Hosting Google Web Fonts
Let’s be clear: hosting Google web fonts in a GDPR compliant way on your own server requires significant effort. You’ll need to download all the necessary .eot, .woff, .woff2, .ttf, and .svg files, upload them to your server, and then add the corresponding CSS snippet.
Valgrind on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite
You want to hack with C and Valgrind on OS X 10.10 Yosemite? Well, you’ll definitely run into problems getting it for your very platform, as there is no official stable release out there yet. Consequentially these is no receipt for Homebrew (which is great anyways, get it!), hence you need to manually build that nifty tool from the latest trunk SVN repository.
Extracting Libs from a Node.js Project
As promised, lets break out my customized plugins I’ve used with metalsmith to build up this site. I had to rename them (see this pull request) in order to be allowed to publish them on metalsmith.io.
Hello World
Hello World! You are reading the first published note on my shiny new site. Currently everything feels a bit empty, but I hope I can fill things up with useful information ASAP.